(03-27-2015, 02:29 PM)Melkire Wrote: Disclaimer, never played WoW, but I think this phenomenon in FFXIV largely owes itself to the "Quicksand is the hotspot for RP!" and "Sign up for an event if you need to break out!" mentality which discourages a more personal, one-on-one approach of random encounters. That, and a LOT of new people I see here on RPC list themselves or their characters as really shy and introverted, which makes losing themselves in a noisy crowd a lot more appealing than walking up to someone on the street at random and going, "Hey, will you walk with me for a bit? I'd like to ask you about _____" as a hook.
Taverns in WoW were generally the opposite of a hotspot. Goldshire's reputation is well-known, but other, smaller places like Silvermoon's Wayfarer's Inn and Stormwind's Blue Parrot also had reputations as loci of bad RP. People avoided them in favor of one-on-one interactions.
The reversal has been interesting, but, for me at least, pretty rewarding.
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